Mandarin Dragonets eggs

[jlangley0103]

these where spawened last night at dusk. First time for this pair.

I should add there where a lot more eggs but my other fish found them tastey..

 

[revhtree]

Wow very cool!

 

[revsgirl]

Neat!!

 

[kungfujoe]

thats pretty awsome.. you can try to raise some manderin fry =)

 

[Aquascaper]

This Rocks-
Guys J has a gift for these things-
the tank with his mandarins is less than a year set-up...

Great work J

 

[jlangley0103]

This Rocks-
Guys J has a gift for these things-
the tank with his mandarins is less than a year set-up...

Great work J

some of the credit goes to Aquascaper, he helped setup, and scape that tank.

i am going to try to hatch them but i was out of the hobby for 7 years. back then i raised clownfish like crazy, so i give me a 20% chance some will hatch.

I will move the fry to Aquascaper's, he has a growout tank and green water.

 

[Aquascaper]

J-
Thanks for the kind words,
but as good as pairing mandarins as I may be....
Mandarins Spawning in a new tank is something Very few people can lay claims to...

You got the knack my brother!

 

[UFfishingirl]

That is so awesome!! Congratulations! :smile:

 

[Gerber77]

Yea thats amazing. Great Job. Congrats.

 

[wa108666]

Wow...Ive been in the hobby nearly 20 years and not heard of this. I hope you do well with raising these. I hate to see these wild caught, you may be on to something here:bigsmile:

 

[kungfujoe]

what do mandarin fry actually eat?

 

[Dee77]

thats sweet!

 

[CTMarinelife]

Wholesale fish guy I knew was getting mandarin eggs and feeding finicky fish, said no matter what every fish loved them. Might keep eye out for my idols if they aren't eating.

 

[jski711]

here is an old video of my S. splendidus rising to spawn. its hard to get a decent video with all the lights off.

 

[fragman2]

Very cool indeed, love to see the fry and updates please.

 

[CJO]

That's great. I think that Matt Wittenrich has a great book that goes into detail on raising the fry. It's called The Complete Illustrated Breader's Guide to Marine Aquarium Fishes. He was the first one to successfully raise the fry from Mandarins and got ORA started with theirs.

CJ